As Nobel as each post maybe, it still falls into the main United States problem- “individualism”. When the whole anti work movement, is supposed to be the collective. It’s more of funny personal stories of how someone quit, or depressing outlooks of college grads living paycheck to paycheck. It’s all just individuals sharing stuff.
It also outlines a big problem, a movement needs a peaceful side and a more not so peaceful side. MLK wouldn’t be at the table if it wasn’t for the threat of Malcom X and the Black Panthers.
Nelson Mandela wouldn’t of been at the table if it wasn’t for the ANC, and their tactics. Same with the Sinn Fein if they weren’t associated with the IRA.
Same goes for the labor movement, and veterans from war. It wouldn’t mean shit without the battle of Blair Mountain, Ludlow, the bonus army and so on. People willing to put down their life’s to fight for the cause, and yes, they lost a lot. But in the long run they won for their cause.
Cause the fact is, a billionaire can ether sit down and talk with a kind gentleman or woman to discuss better treatment for their people and cause. Or they can deal with the other group coming to their house in the night with guns and a rope.
Peaceful movements can not exist without a more action centered counterpart.
From a quick glance, this movement has nether. We have no peaceful people with a voice strong enough to make are voices herd, we have no unity. We just have people quitting their jobs and telling stories. Because we have no unity, we haven’t a hope in hell of getting any peaceful figures elected.
“But it’s something.” Yeah, in a time when you live paycheck to paycheck, from one medical bill off from loosing everything, and climate change displacing and changing the world as we know it possibly starving to death, and companies are still making record breaking profits.
With are individual selfish approach disguised as “peaceful pacifism” with are inability to take serious action and commit to actual unity, no matter how many upvotes are given or how many screenshots are posted, we lost. Not only economically, but also environmentally.
Yes, maybe you quit your job, maybe you got that raise. But it’s only temporary for something that needs a collective voice now.
The other side that would gladly see you as slave labor if you work in an “unskilled line of work” or just down right shoot you cause you’re left wing or pro union is willing to storm the capital. (When do we get to use the guns.) They stormed the capital and their leader got no punishment for fucking hell.
If this is all we can do, then we might as well just admit it’s a battle we can’t win.